Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| Kirkgate Turnpike, Cockermouth | ||
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| Kirkgate Turnpike | ||
| site name:- | road, Keswick to Cockermouth (?) | |
| Street:- | Lorton Road | |
| locality:- | Cockermouth | |
| civil parish:- | Cockermouth (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | toll gate (site) | |
| coordinates:- | NY12743004 (about) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY1230 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY13 | |
| references:- | OS County Series |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 54 8) |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "Kirkgate T.P." gate across road and a building; possible gate on a side road just beyond |
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| hearsay:- |
Cumberland Pacquet, 1777:- |
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| "[KIRK-GATE TURNPIKE]" |
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| "[NOTICE is hereby given, that the TOLLS arising at the Toll-gate called and known
by the Name of the KIRK-GATE Turnpike Gate at Cockermouth in the County of Cumberland,
will be Let by Auction to the best Bidder, for the Term of Two or Three Years, at
the House of JOHN MEELS, Innholder, in Cockermouth; on Monday the 17th Day of FEBRUARY
next, between the hours of Twelve and Three of the Clock in the Afternoon, in manner
directed by the Act passed in the Thirteenth Year of the reign of his Majesty King
George the Third, for regulating the Turnpike Roads. The Tolls were Let the last Three
Years at the annual Rent of 80l. and will be put up at that Sum.]" |
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| "[Whoever happens to be best Bidder, must at the same Time give Security with sufficient
Sureties to the satisfaction of the Trustees of the Turnpike Road then present, for
the Monthly Payment of the Rent agreed for to the Treasurer of the Turnpike Road.]" |
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| "[JOHN WREN Clerk to the Trustees of the said Turnpike Road]" |
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